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Bethany Handley

Location

South-east

Language

English 

Genre

PoetryNon-FictionChildren and YA 

Tags

Representing Wales Recipient 

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Biography

Bethany Handley (she/her) is an award-winning writer, poet and Disabled activist from South Wales.

Bethany’s work has been featured widely, including by BBC Radio 4, BBC Radio Wales, POETRY, Poetry Wales, The Welsh Agenda and on the Poetry Foundation. Her work explores the intersection of nature and disability and challenges the barriers that Disabled people experience.

Bethany was awarded the gold Prize for Creative Non-fiction in the Creative Future Writers’ Award 2023 and she is one of the writers on Literature Wales’ Representing Wales 2023.